Date

Sections 

Expected Topics

Jan. 6

introduction

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 

Jan. 9/13

CN Chapter 1

network overview

Jan. 16/20

CN Chapter 2 

(Sec. 1: The theorectical basis for data communication; Sec. 5: The public switched telephone network; Sec. 7: Cable television)

PHY layer technologies, acccess, backbone

Assignment 1

Due on Jan. 23 (Solution 1). 

Jan. 23/27/30

CN Chapter 3 (Sec. 1 Data link layer design issues: 1.2-1.4; Sec. 2 Error detection and correction; Sec. 2 Multiple access protocols 2.1, 2.2, 2.6)

link layer, link error control, resource management and medium access control (MAC)

Assignment 2

Due on Feb. 6 (Solution 2) 

Feb. 3

CN Chapter 4 (Sec. 4 Wireless LANs: 4.3)

wireless local area network (WLAN) 

Feb. 6/10/13

CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 5: Internetworking; Sec. 6: The network layer in the Internet: 6.1; Sec. 2: Routing Algorithms: 2.2-2.6)

network layer, routing algorithms

Feb. 17-21

Reading Break

Feb. 24/27

CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 6: The network layer in the Internet: 6.2-6.5)

Internet addressing and routing protocols

Assignment 3 

Due on Feb. 28 (Solution 3)

Mar. 3

Midterm

midterm-sol

Mar. 6/10/13/17

CN Chapter 6 (Sec. 1: The transport service: 1.1,1.2; Sec. 5 The Internet transport protocols: TCP: 5.1-5.10)

transport layer, flow control, packet error control, network congestion control

Assignment 4

Due on Mar. 25 (Solution 4)

Mar. 20/24

CN Chapter 6 (Sec. 4: The Internet trasport protocols: UDP: 4.1)

TCP variants and UDP

Mar. 27/31

CN Chapter 7 (Sec. 1: DNS; Sec. 2: Electronic Mail; Sec. 3: The world wide web)

http, mail, DNS

Assignment 5

Due on Apr. 3 (Solution 5)

Apr. 3

Review

exam package

Apr. 14 (7-10pm)

Final Exam

Slides artwork credits:Lin Cai, Tanenbaum, Kurose&Ross, and many others. 

"Observations for students," by R. W. Hamming (PDF)

Google talk: Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking"

Another talk by Van, "Content-centric  networking"

Want to learn more? ECE463/ECE514